Impact of the 1980 BEIR-III report on low-level radiation risk assessment, radiation protection guides, and public health policy

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5674889

Fabrikant, J I

The author deals with the scientific basis for establishing appropriate radiation protection guides, and this effect on evaluation of societal activities concerned with the health effects in human populations exposed to low-level radiation. Methodology is discussed for estimating risks of radio-induced cancer and genetically related ill-health in man, the sources of data, the dose-response models used, and the precision ascribed to the process. (PSB)

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA); California Univ., San Francisco (USA). School of Medicine
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5674889
• Report Number(s): LBL-13408; CONF-8106181-1; ON: DE82003046; TRN: 82-006742
• Resource Relation: Conference: Health physics summer school on selected topics in reactor health physics, Lexington, KY, USA, 14 Jun 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
HUMAN POPULATIONS
MORTALITY
RADIATION PROTECTION
LOW DOSE IRRADIATION
RISK ASSESSMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
DATA COMPILATION
DECISION MAKING
NEOPLASMS
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
DATA
DISEASES
INFORMATION
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
IRRADIATION
NUMERICAL DATA
POPULATIONS
RADIATION EFFECTS
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290300 - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment
Health
& Safety
290600 - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy
560151 - Radiation Effects on Animals- Man